Machine testing station as a practical training base for agricultural engineers

The new materials about V.P. Goryachkin have been recently found in the archives of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin (Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy). These finding helped clarify and supplement information about the history of establishing the agro-engineering scientific and pedagogical school by Vasily Goryachkin at Moscow Agricultural Institute – Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy – Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. The newly discovered documents reveal some of the circumstances of the construction of the Machine Testing Station at Moscow Agricultural Institute in 1913, the establishing of the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanics of Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1928, as well as further training courses for teachers in the field of agricultural engineering. Documents related to the opening of the All-Union Institute of Agricultural Engineering in 1928 were also introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. Particularly valuable facts concerning the life and work of V.P. Goryachkin, can be found in the earliest memoirs about the great scientist, written by his closest student and long-term colleague Professor B.A. Krill in 1937, two years after the death of Vasily Goryachkin.

1. Zaitseva N.L. Life and fate of V.P. Goryachkin. Vestnik of Moscow Goryachkin Agroengineering University. 2017;6:7 9. (In Rus.)

2. Vasily Prokhorovich Goryachkin: memories of contemporaries: Monograph. M.N. Erokhin, N.L. Zaitseva, N.V.Aldoshin. Moscow, RGAU-MSKHA, 2018. 241 p. (In Rus.)

3. Erokhin M.N. Vasily Prokhorovich Goryachkin: pages of life: Monograph. M.N. Erokhin, N.L. Zaitseva, N.V.Aldoshin. Moscow, FGBNU “Rosinformagroteh”, 2020. 280 p. (In Rus.)

4. Zaitseva N.L., Aldoshin N.V., Ryabova N.Yu. Development stages of domestic agroengineering education in Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. Izvestiya of Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. 2021;4:149-169. (In Rus.) https://doi.org/10.26897/0021-342X-2021-4-149-169

5. Aldoshin N.V. Towards the 120th anniversary of the department “Agricultural Machinery” of the K.A. Timiryazev Russian State Agricultural Academy (1901 2021): Monograph. N.V.Aldoshin, N.L. Zaitseva, N.Y. Ryabova. Moscow, LLC “Sam Polygraphist”, 2021. 156 p. (In Rus.)

6. Kril B.A. Biography of Academician V.P. Goryachkin. Materials of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin. 1937. Folder No. 53. (In Rus.)

7. Golden Annals of Timiryazevka. V.M. Bautin, V.V. Kazarezov. Vol. 2: Petrovskaya (Timiryazevskaya) Academy: formation (1873 1894). Vol. II. Part I. Moscow, FGNU “Rosinforagrotеkh”, 2006. 420 p. (In Rus.)

8. Materials about the history of Russian Timiryazev State Agrarian University. Materials of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin. Folder No. 51. (In Rus.)

9. About agricultural engineering. Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of 1 April 1921. Sobranie Uzakonenii, 1921, No. 1. (In Rus.)

10. Milova N.V. Materials about the work of the circle on agricultural mechanics. Materials of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin. Folder No. 56. (In Rus.)

11. Transcript of V.P. Goryachkin’s report at the meeting of the Institute of Agricultural Mechanics on 25 November 1927. Materials of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin. Folder No. 51. (In Rus.)

12. Materials on the establishment of the Moscow Institute of Mechanisation and Electrification of Agriculture (1928 1930). Materials of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin. Folder No. 58. (In Rus.)

13. Klyonin N.I. History of the department “Harvesting machines”. 1990. Materials of the Museum of Agricultural Mechanics named after V.P. Goryachkin. Folder No. 1. (In Rus.)